FK BASK
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| Full name | Fudbalski klub BASK | ||
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| Founded | 1903 | ||
| Ground | Careva ćuprija | ||
| Capacity | 3,000 | ||
| Chairman | Slobodan Stanojević | ||
| League | Serbian League Belgrade | ||
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FK BASK (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК БАСК) is a football club from Savski Venac, Belgrade, Serbia. It is one of the oldest clubs in Serbia. The club currently competes in the Serbian League Belgrade (3rd tier). BASK are the initials of Beogradski akademski sportski klub.[1]
History
Formation of SK Soko
In the Kingdom of Serbia there had been many sports sections and societies, whose members were constantly increasing in number. So in the year of 1891 Belgrade gymnastics society "Soko" was established. One student, Andra Nikolić, became chairmen of the parliament, minister of education and foreign affairs, academic and writer (today in part of Belgrade called Senjak, there is a street named after him, Dr. Andra Nikolić"), together with Hugo Buli, was also the initiator of foundation "The first Serbian association for games with ball", on 1 May 1899. This association for games with ball is considered also the first Serbian football club on territory of ex Yugoslavia and Serbia. Unfortunately, this club had been closed very soon and it disappeared. Nevertheless, it succeeded in organizing one real contest on the new football field built in Guberevac.
Members of Gymnastics association SK Soko continued with ball games, and their enthusiasm had not diminished. They have been gathering on one meadow in Jugovićeva Street. The new younger members had constantly joined them, and then started generation replacement. These lovers of ball decided finally to organize again and once more to establish their own club. On member's gathering, after the usual training, under the open sky on their field, they have founded their club. Among others, unavoidable Hugo Buli, Steva Stefanović, Milan Bajić, Ljuba Jovanović, Mita Đorđević, Mita Stamenković, Boba Marković, Momir Korunović, M.Milosavljević and others were present.
Inaugural meeting was held on 18 April 1903, under the clear sky, on unoccupied lot in Braće Jugovića Street, where in that time was summer playfield Belgrade's gymnastics association Soko.
Assembly's Participants had by acclamation elected Ljubomir Jovanović, who later became minister in governments of Kingdom of Serbia and president of national assembly, and satisfied with the work done, went home. When had met the following day on the playfield, somebody said: “Oh, my God, people, we have founded a club, and nobody had remembered that we should give it a name.” Really, in very big exaltation the previous day they have completely forgotten about that “detail”.
They have assembled again and then they have started making suggestion. People said that this debate had been very long and at some moments also very bitter, until Ljuba Jovanović, newly selected president, did not propose the name “Soko”. The others have all agreed, so on 18 April 1903. of the old calendar, the first football club in Kingdom of Serbia appeared (Bačka from Subotica had been founded in 1901, two years before Soko, but on territory of Austro-Hungary in that time).
The early years
The first and foremost problem of newly founded club was a playfield. The field in Jugovićeva Street was too tight for the playground so another suitable place in the area known as Bara Venecija was found, between current Belgrade Fair and the main city railway station. However, they could not stay there because the river Sava had risen up, flooded and destroy the playfield. Finally, an adequate playground was found in part of Topčider near of Košutnjak’s forest, in the place of current Range station Topčider. Although the playground was quite far from the city center at that time, "Soko" arranged it well and stayed there for a full 27 years, until the state expropriated it for railway needs.
The stadium got an athletics track and a tribune for standing. Apart from many local games, the first international match in Serbia, between the
In that period the club had difficulties in finding opponents as there were not many existing clubs to play against, so one of the first and the biggest public matches at that period was played among two teams of SK Soko on "St. George´s Day" (
Nevertheless, two years have passed until the match between two oldest clubs in the Kingdom of Serbia took place. On July 20, 1906, Šumadija and Soko met in Kragujevac, and Soko won by 6:1. In the rematch, on August 27, 1906, Soko won again, but this time more convincingly, with the score of 9:0. Unknown chronicle registered that the crown prince himself, George Karađorđević, was also present. For the history of Serbian football, it is very important to mention that these were the first matches played between two domestic clubs. This tradition of the rival matches between FK BASK (former SOKO) and FK Šumadija is held, since 1993, every year on St. George's Day, on May 6, and on Krstovdan, on September 14, when they celebrate their respective holiday Slava´s.
It would be in 1911 and 1912 that Soko would gain the reputation of the strongest club in Serbia and included players such as Čedomir Nedić, Đoka Ilić, Mata Miodragović, Žika Popović, Jovan Viktorović, Elezović, Paja Vukićević and others, which formed the core of the group of the pioneer Serbian football stars.[2]
Soko Pro-Roma
With the beginning of the
Domestic competition
After the war the club was immediately re-established and continued with work, but the results of the team were alarmingly bad. At beginning, the club was suffering heavy defeats, but this did not discourage the management and players. Their coach until 1926 was Austrian
For the first
BASK
In 1931 the king
Almost simultaneously, the club ran into another, harder misfortune. Belgrade assembly for the necessities of the railway took away from BASK the playfield in Topčider, so, for some time, the club had no field of their own. Later, BASK got the playing field behind Belgrade electrical plant, which was attributed to
In the
Second World War and aftermath
With the beginning of the
At the end of the war, most of the major existing clubs were disbanded by the new authorities. BASK was no exception. New football collectives were founded, with new names that were more appropriate to new times and circumstances.
In the parts of Belgrade, namely Senjak and Topčider hill, which were the home of BASK, a club named Senjak has been founded, and it competed in regional Belgrade leagues. In this environment was born the idea, that this club could take over the tradition of BASK of gathering young people from that part of the city, especially because the club had got the playfield on the edge of Topčider park, very close to former stadium of SK Soko, where it is today.
The idea, nevertheless, could have not been realized immediately. No sooner than 1953, on 50-anniversary of Soko and BASK, on the Annual assembly, in the presence of many members of the pre-war club, FK Senjak took over the name BASK and all the traditions of this oldest football collective in former Kingdom of Serbia. Milovan Jakšić, "El Grande Milovan" was elected by the assembly as the president of the club. Since then, until 2005, the FK BASK has been competing mostly in the Serbian League Belgrade.
In this period, the biggest success had been the winning of the Cup of the Belgrade liberation in 1958, the victory in the Cup of Yugoslavia in territory of Belgrade football association, and in the same year, the defeat in the final game of Yugoslav Cup for the Serbian territory from FK Borac Čačak. After taking the first in the Belgrade First League in 1971 BASK was promoted to the Serbian League North where it played for most of the later period.
Recent history
After the break-up of
Club name
- SK Soko (1903–33)
- BASK (1933–45)
- FK Senjak (1945–53)
- FK BASK (1953–)
Honours
- Champions: 2010–11
- Champions: 2009–10
Notable players
- Players with national team appearances
- [8]
Ratomir Čabrić- Kolnago Ferante
- Milutin Ivković
- Milovan Jakšić
- Andreja Kojić
- Miroslav Lukić
- Milorad Mitrović
- Stojan Popović
- Miodrag Ranojević
- Mladen Sarić
- Slavko Šurdonja
- Aleksandar Tomašević
Milan Biševac- Dušan Petronijević
- Borislav Stevanović
- Bojan Zajić
- Bratislav Živković
Milan Stojanoski
Vladimir Rodić
For the list of all current and former players with Wikipedia article, please see: Category:FK BASK players.
Notable former coaches
Otto Necas (1925–1926)- Dimitrije Davidović (1931–1932)
- Sima Simić (1932–1934)[9]
- Dimitrije Milojević (1934–1935)[9]
- Milenko Jovanović (1935–1936)[9]
- Milutin Ivković (1936–1937)[9]
- Hans Bloch (1937–1938)[9]
- Milutin Ivković (1938–1939)[9]
Simo Krunić (2006–2007)- Blagoje Paunović (2010–2011)
References
- ^ BASK at EU-Football.info
- ^ Sportista, n 42, Belgrade 27 October 1924, page 3
- ^ Sto godina prvog fudbalskog kluba u Srbiji by Miloš Šaranović at B92, 8-5-2003 (in Serbian)
- ^ FK Vojvodina history at jelenfootball.com
- ^ Beogradski sokolovi pg. 32
- ^ Beogradski sokolovi pag. 88
- ^ FK BASK at Srbijafudbal
- ^ BASK at National-Football-Teams.com
- ^ a b c d e f BASK (Beograd) Archived 2017-02-02 at the Wayback Machine at exyufudbal.in.rs